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Hartley lab welcomes new graduate student Jack Petersen
Meredith co-chairs the Annual Meeting of the American Thyroid Association in Chicago
![Matt the researcher stands at a podium](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/RTH%20Sept%202024%20Matt.jpg?h=2f83cd36&itok=xS0oSzX2)
Matt presents at the International Workshop on Resistance to Thyroid Hormone - Sept 2024
![Five group members stand around the research professor in a field](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/Sophie%20-%20July%202024.jpg?h=08b866d1&itok=cemBBwFx)
Hartley Lab welcomes REU student, Sophie Juliana
![Disni smiles next to the research professor](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/ASMS%20June%202024%20v1_0.jpg?h=ca27830c&itok=6RBpdkxT)
Disni and Meredith present at ASMS in June 2024
![Four group members stand around Dr. Hartley with their awards](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/Awards%20May%202024.jpg?h=2f83cd36&itok=K6quwgiF)
May 2024 - Hartley Lab Members win awards at Chemistry Department Awards Ceremony
![Matt and Meredith pose in front of their poster at ASN](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/ASN%202024.jpeg?h=d318f057&itok=eT86MXWR)
Matt and Meredith present at the American Society for Neuroscience in April 2024
![Esther and Meredith stand in front of.a scenic beach, palm tree, and mountainous landscape](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/Myelin%20GRC%202024%202.jpg?h=71976bb4&itok=A14a9Qvi)
Esther and Meredith presented at the 2024 Myelin GRC in March 2024
![PhD student Nishama presents "Investigating the Role of Cholesterol Ester Regulation Toward Successful Remyelination" to a mixed audience](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/Nishama%20PittCon%202024.jpg?h=b23e1172&itok=WfYybi6J)
Nishama presents at PittCon February 2024 👩🏫
PhD student Nishama presents "Investigating the Role of Cholesterol Ester Regulation Toward Successful Remyelination" to a mixed audience![PhD student Disni celebrates passing her orals with cake and champagne](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/Disni%20Orals.jpg?h=d318f057&itok=VD8tys0p)
Disni passed her Orals! Congratulations!!
![Ziyu is speaking on a podium next to a panel of people](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/Ziyu%20ATA%20increased%20resolution.jpg?h=4521fff0&itok=ZoTrN_zI)
Ziyu presents at the American Thyroid Association meeting in September 2023
![Dr. Hartley stands by the side of four other distinguished speakers](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/Symposium%20Co-chair%20increased%20resolution.jpg?h=7352b137&itok=05odNYAU)
Dr. Hartley co-chairs a symposium
![Hartley lab all around one table getting dinner](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/dinner.jpeg?h=8c4bd285&itok=XaCnLK_Z)
The Hartley lab says goodbye to Hiroko as Hiroko embarks on a new journey starting graduate school in the neuroscience program at the University of Buffalo
![Dr. Hartley smiling with a friend of hers at Bioorganic chemistry Gordon Research Conference](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/smile.jpg?h=8c4bd285&itok=DVY9kYKV)
Dr. Hartley attends the 2023 Bioorganic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference
![Jenna, Matt, and Nishama receive awards at 2023 Department of Chemistry Awards Ceremony](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/Award-ceramony-005-768x512.jpg?h=afdc3185&itok=YZO_67yj)
Jenna, Matt, and Nishama receive awards at the 2023 Department of Chemistry Awards ceremony!
![Jenna and Dr. Hartley standing next to Jenna's thesis defense presentation](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/MicrosoftTeams-image-5-edited.jpg?h=0808bdec&itok=2hPLbf0S)
Jenna defends her Master’s thesis in chemistry!
![Dr. Hartley and Matt sitting down and smiling](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/thumbnail_IMG_5532-.jpeg?h=754d1723&itok=TM6uJrF8)
Dr. Hartley and Matt attend the 14th annual International Workshop on Resistance to Thyroid Hormone and Thyroid Hormone Action in Monterey, CA in April 2023
![Nishama Mohotti standing next to her research board](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/MicrosoftTeams-image-4-edited.jpg?h=f2ee31d5&itok=JIiNO1G_)
Nishama Mohotti presents at Gordon Research Conference (GRC) & Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) for Glial Biology: Functional Interactions Among Glia and Neurons
![Ziyu opening a bottle of champagne](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/IMG_4788-1-edited.jpg?h=7971fb6f&itok=OWKxTX7N)
The lab celebrates Ziyu passing his orals!! Congrats Ziyu!
![Dr. Hartley stands by the side of two OSHU Conference participants](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/OHSU%20Chemical%20Biology%20and%20Physiology%20Conference%20increased%20resolution.jpg?h=4521fff0&itok=AxhzANvl)
Dr. Hartley presents at OHSU Chemical Biology and Physiology Conference in December 2023
![Dr. Hartley and Liz standing next to Liz's research symposium](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/IMG_5449-1-edited.jpg?h=eeb6e823&itok=N0vEehk1)
Liz presents at the undergraduate research symposium
![Esther Holt, Nozomi Ando, and Matthew Zupan smiling for a picture](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/Image-11-10-22-at-12.07-PM.jpg?h=cb55150d&itok=KFkjyphd)
Matthew earns award for presentation at the Chemical Biology Symposium. Seen here with auspicious speaker Nozomi Ando and PhD student organizer Esther Holt.
![Dr. Hartley and Matthew Zupan smiling while Matthew holds champagne](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/Image-11-10-22-at-12.15-PM.jpg?h=53997354&itok=ESPG0lXE)
Our very own Matthew Zupan passes Orals!!
![Dr. Hartley and her friend smiling at the American Thyroid Association](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/Image-11-10-22-at-11.46-AM.jpg?h=f2ee31d5&itok=TY36Tf6E)
Meredith Hartley presents for the American Thyroid Association in Montreal
![Tracy Appelhanz](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/Image-6-30-22-at-10.55-AM.jpg?h=03743e91&itok=soDFDEZi)
Tracy Appelhanz collaborates with the Hartley Lab through the NSF RET IDEA-BioE program!
![Ilia Parish](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/ilia.jpg?h=400d76cd&itok=apo-ZbVy)
Ilia Parish receives the Bricker Summer ChemScholar Award!
![Liz Arends](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/liz.jpeg?h=afdc3185&itok=NxfqMUcO)
Liz Arends wins two Undergraduate Research Awards!
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Welcome to our new REU student Michel Evertsen!
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Ziyu presents at the genomic symposium at KU
![Jenna, Rashmi, Rachel, and Dr. Hartley smiling for a picture](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/Image-5-16-22-at-11.47-AM.jpg?h=5bc90a56&itok=PSi3EdjF)
Congratulations to those recognized by the KU Department of Chemistry for excellence 2022
Jenna became a Higuchi Summer Scholar and also earned The Adrienne Hiscox ScholarshipRashmi earned the Kennith and Gertrude Marsi Scholarship
Rachel earned the Chemistry Department Scholarship Award
![Nishama and Dr. Hartley smiling for a picture](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/Image-5-16-22-at-11.42-AM-768x668.jpg?h=3a66f34b&itok=NbNOFfft)
Nishama passes her oral examinations with flying colors 2022
![Hiroko, Rachel, and Dr. Hartley all laughing and smiling for a picture](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/Image-5-16-22-at-11.28-AM-768x621.jpg?h=dd3ccd35&itok=sPrVBy5C)
Great work and good luck to graduating seniors Hiroko and Rachel! 2022
![Dr. Hartley holding her baby and smiling down on him](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/Image-2-19-22-at-1.23-PM.jpg?h=85680b1b&itok=iAfSQv66)
Congratulations to Dr. Hartley for her beautiful baby boy! 2021
![Nicholas Campbell](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/Nicholas-Campbell-Head-Shot-Cropped-1-268x300_0.jpg?h=41253585&itok=KpaSzSJE)
We are excited to host Nicholas Campbell, our REU Summer Scholar, to the Hartley Lab 2021
![Nishama](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/DSCF4443-2-975x1024.jpg?h=ecfce72a&itok=OZ00orzp)
Congratulations two-fold to Nishama on receiving the Charles & Beatrice Kulier Scholarship Award, but also being a Marsi Summer Scholar! 2021
![Saqib Faisal](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/Image-5-19-21-at-10.35-PM.jpg?h=f814aac3&itok=28i8bFQq)
We congratulate postdoc Saqib Faisal on a new job at Deciphera! 2021
![Hiroko and Saqib](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/Image-1-21-21-at-1.51-PM-768x336.jpg?h=3caaf28c&itok=TkpEmaQw)
The Hartley Lab welcomes UGRA Hiroko and postdoc Saqib 2021
![Jenna Williams](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/Image-12-17-20-at-11.09-AM.jpg?h=5cc627a3&itok=IlHSI_El)
The Hartley Lab welcomes graduate student Jenna Williams 2020
![Rashmi Binjawadagi](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/RASHMI-B-WIN_20200615_114412-2.jpg?h=b5e035a6&itok=rq80d67J)
Hartley Lab’s own Rashmi Binjawadagi gets accepted as graduate student! 2020
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Lab Team heads to South Park to safely enjoy the weather 2020
![Matt Zupan looking at a microscope](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/researcher.jpg?h=8c4bd285&itok=JQPVl50L)
Lab member Matt Zupan selected as trainee on NIH Chemistry and Biology Training Grant 2020
![American Thyroid Association web article that detailed Dr. Hartley’s research](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/web-2_0.jpg?h=e6bbdcee&itok=GHL01Sld)
Dr. Hartley awarded research grant from the American Thyroid Association 2020
ATA Research Grants – New Hampshire Fund for Thyroid & Development
![Researcher in a lab coat and glasses doing research](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/science-being-done_1.jpg?h=8b2abc09&itok=PR-une0D)
Hartley lab opens; lab members get the ball rolling! 2020
![Dr. Hartley's postdoctoral research on Innovating Treatments for CNS Disorders](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/website_1.jpg?h=3e0b0467&itok=DL1Icm0R)
Sobetirome, the drug Dr. Hartley researched in her postdoctoral work, moves into clinical trials June 2020
![Myelin and Dr. Meredith standing next to a machine](/sites/hartleylab/files/styles/16_9_placeholder_/public/images/2024/mylien_1.jpg?h=872f61cd&itok=WjJyIYbu)